Abstract
The world of telecommunications continues to provide radical technologies. Offering the benefits of a superior television experience at reduced long-term costs, IPTV isthe newest offering. Deployments, however, are slow to be rolled out; the hardwareand software support necessary is not uniformly available.This paper examines the challenges in providing IPTV services and the limitations indevelopments to overcome these challenges. Subsequently, a proposal is made whichattempts to help solve the challenge of fulfilling real-time multimedia transmissionsthrough provisioning for differentiated services. Initial implementations in Opnet aredocumented, and the paper concludes with an outline of future work.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 61-69 |
| Journal | International Journal of Computers Communications and Control |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2006 |
Keywords
- Transport layer
- real-time communication
- QoS
- multimedia protocols
- reconfigurable stacks
- Opnet simulation.